Queen Mary

Democratising Technology

Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015

How can we imagine the future? "Democratising Technology" engages people who are marginalised by design decisions about digital technologies in choosing how our world might be. In an age of computer networks and growing (but intangible) connectivity between people and things, we offer a series of techniques, suitable for a wide range of groups, which encourage participation, imaginative re-thinking and making connections to help us articulate how we'd like to interact in the future.

Academic field

Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies

Who Were the Nuns?

Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015

The project is a prosopographical study of the English convents in exile during the period 1600-1800 when it was illegal to be a nun in Britain. Key research questions include a broad response to the question 'Who were the nuns?' This involves locating the members in their family, religious, political and economic context and identifying the support networks sustaining the convents over two centuries.

Academic field

English Language and Literature, History

The Saint-Aubins' 'Book of Arses': The Livre de Caricatures tant bonnes que mauvaises

Posted by Colin Jones on March 29, 2015

The project is focussed on a highly unusual book of eighteenth-century caricatures, the 'Livre de caricatures tant bonnes que mauvaises', composed between the 1740s and the 1770s by the Saint-Aubin brothers and associates.
The Project aims to digitise the volume (which contains 387 pages) and to place it on the web in the form of a critical edition.

Academic field

Modern Languages, History